A teenager has been arrested for murder following allegedly giving fentanyl to a 16-year-old girl who overdosed and died.
Jacob Sayre, 17, was charged as an adult with second-degree murder, endangering the welfare of a child and delivering a controlled substance Thursday in Ozark, Missouri.
Investigators said the girl, who died in September and has not been publicly identified, met Sayre the day before she died. Authorities found a rolled up $20 bill and a blue pill that had been cut on his nightstand following his death, KY3 reported.
Police found a note on the girl’s desk addressed to another friend, in which she wrote regarding their relationship and mentioned that she took drugs. The letter ends abruptly with the phrase “I foresee”.
Investigators also searched the girl’s phone and found a long conversation between her and Sayre on Snapchat, in which they discussed Sayre bringing her drugs.
“Just have a bucket near you and only sniff half of it, and it’s only one,” Sayre reportedly warned her. “Do only one quarter then do the other quarter if you don’t feel it.”
In another post, the girl told Sayre that she had cut the medicine wrong and he felt it was starting to work.
Sayre later told investigators he met the girl at church and delivered the pill, but he claimed he didn’t know it was drugs, Missouri News reported.
An autopsy report revealed that the girl had foam in her throat and had a lethal amount of fentanyl, as well as MDMA, in her system.
Sayre was released on $50,000 bond and is due in court Jan. 31.
